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My Time With CCP Is Over

After six and a half years, on the day of my 13th wedding anniversary, I am no longer employed by CCP. I was laid off, not fired, along with a number of my friends and colleagues. As such, I am now looking for employment.1 If anyone has leads on full-time Narrative Design or Game Design […]

5 Worst Ways To Ask A Professional For Help

I like helping people out. I really do. I often eek out time between projects here and there to check a friend’s game mechanics or read over someone’s manuscript. For my friends, I’m willing to do a lot. The downside is that I don’t have a lot of time left over to help relative strangers. I […]

My 5 Favorite Sherlocks (That You Haven’t Heard Of)

Yesterday, I posted my top five favorite portrayals of Sherlock Holmes that you’ve probably heard of. Today I show my five favorite Sherlock Holmes portrayals you’ve probably didn’t know about. Igor Petrenko Star of the recent Russian series of “Sherlock Holmes,” Petrenko portrays a farsighted, neurotic Holmes. It’s not canonical, but it is compelling. Clive […]

My 5 Favorite Sherlocks (That You’ve Heard Of)

Let me start off by saying this: this list is so terrible I went out of my way to start fights on the Internet about it. Seriously, I went online and ranted about it specifically because I wanted to get into fights about how bad it was. Naturally, most people agreed with me, and I got […]

Peer Review: “Close to Holmes” by Alistair Duncan

As usual, full disclosure: Alister Duncan is one of my peers at MX Publishing, and I got a copy of this (via iBooks) for free for review. Usually when I do cardio for my workout, I watch videos on my iPad Mini. Last week, I forgot to side-load my episodes of Elementary, and the wi-fi in […]

Elementary 216/217: “The One Percent Solution” and “Ears To You”

Episode 216: The One Percent Solution Lestrade: These two episodes are fortuitously grouped together, as they both showcase G. Lestrade.  I talked a fair amount about Lestrade back at the beginning of the season, but there’s more to go into here. (I’ll cluster my comments together for ease.) His tenacity (such as his stubbornness in […]

“Your Game Sucks” at SPSU This Saturday

Sorry for the short notice, but things fell into place rather quickly. This Saturday, March 15th, I’ll be giving a slightly-expanded version of my LARP playstyle talk, “Your Game Sucks.” It will be at Southern Polytechnic State University in the Student Center Ballroom starting at 3:30 (time subject to change). There’s a lot (P35) that should be free to park […]

My Panels at 221b Con

I just received word of what panels I’ll be speaking on at 221b Con next month. Here’s the blurb for each as well: Canon 101 – Unsure where to start? Want to know the jokes behind the Speckled Blond and the Geek Interpreter? Here’s the panel to ask questions without judgement. The Napoleon of Crime […]

Peer Review: “The Transmigration of Cora Riley” by Ellie Di Julio

As with most of my peer reviews, Ellie is a friend of mine. I’m coming into this biased, and I got a free ARC of it to read. Plus, it’s the first book I’ve actually written a pull quote for. If you’re interested, it was ”Cora Riley is an action-packed urban fantasy, evocative of some of […]

How To (Maybe) Get Work As A Freelance RPG Writer

For those that don’t know, Onyx Path Publishing is holding an open call for new freelancer writers (and they clarified a few things). While I’m not involved in the process, I spent years going through the “slush pile” of unsolicited submissions. I saw just about every mistake it is possible to make in attempting to […]